Longmen Grottoes, Luoyang

The Longmen Grottoes have a Chinese name that literally means Dragon's Gate Grottoes. They are located along the Yi River a few miles south of Louyang, Hunan Province. The grottoes are a series of caves and niches--some e 2100-- carved into river-edge cliffs. These shelter more than 100,000 statues, 40 pagodas, 3600 tablets and other carvings--devoted to Buddha and related cult objects. Longmen sounds English, but actually refers to Longmenshan Mountains on the west side of the Yi River.

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